For quite some time, there’s been considerable panic about a piece of European legislation called the Global Data

Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR, set to go live in May 2018, outlines new measures that businesses must take in order to lawfully hold the data of EU citizens. In essence businesses need to ensure consent is obtained for all data held as well as implementing internal processes to guarantee that data is protected.

What is GDPR?

Back in 2016, the European Union passed a bill to introduce the Global Data Protection Regulation. The purpose of the legislation was to define the legal rights of EU citizens in relation to their data and to enforce regulations on the data controllers and processors who hold that data. The GDPR will be introduced on the 25th May 2018, and will put impose sanctions on businesses that don’t safeguard the data they process.